Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The Book So what’s it about?

The book is about Japanese Snacks. I think snacks are a great way to look at people and cultures. I also think that snacks may have different meanings for different people so I expect to get a lot of criticism about what I feel is a snack and what isn’t. After all I’m sitting here eating Macaroni Salad and I would say that it’s a meal, mainly because I’m eating it at 12:30 pm. If I was eating this at 3 pm and I had eaten lunch then I would call it a snack.

The book however will not feature any Macaroni salad. For the purposes of the book I looked at snacks as being smaller treats, sometimes salty often sweet. Maybe something you might find these treats in your back pocket on in your knapsack. I guess it’s kind of hard to explain but I knew these snacks when I saw them and you could argue all you want.
I also decided to make this book all about the visual aspects of these snacks. The photography is really going to be the key thing I’m going to focus on. I love the visual side of candy, snacks, and pretty much all foods.

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4 comments:

  1. Did you get lots of pictures of the snacks while in Japan?

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  2. As I posted earlier I got thousands of photos but out of those thousands I hope to have around 80 that are suitable for the book, I may narrow that down to around 50 or 60 but I'm not too sure right now.

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  3. Sounds like the book is comming along. Good luck!

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